[Freeciv-Dev] Re: gtk client core dump

[Jason Short <vze2zq63@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ben Webb wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Daniel L Speyer wrote:
>
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> > On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:38:50PM +0200, Andrey Kotrekhov wrote:
> > >
> > > > Last 2 weeks periodically I get freeciv from cvs.
> > > > But when I start client and connect to the server and type /start.
> > > > I choose nation and client exit with assertion:
> > > >
> > > > assertion "frozen_level >= 0" failed: file "agents.c", line 249
> > > >
> > > > The map on the server is Europe.
> > > > What am I doing wrong?
> > > > Server which I use is 1.12.0. I got it from cvs near month ago.
> > > Starting a 1.12.0 server with europe-200x100-v2.sav and a CVS client
> > > doesn't produce any errors. Can you describe in more detail please
> > > what you have done?
> > I get the same error when connecting a March 2nd client to a January 26th
> > server.  If I use matching client & server, the problem goes away.
> This is PR#1259, which has been erroneously marked as "fixed". See 
> http://www.freeciv.org/cgi-bin/bugs/fixed?id=1259;user=guest;selectid=1259#followup2 
> for my explanation of the problem (which I can only assume was ignored at 
> the time ;)
> To reproduce:
>
> 1. Start a CVS server normally.
> 2. Start a CVS client with differing capabilities to the server. e.g.
>    FREECIV_CAPS="+1.11.6 conn_info pop_cost turn (etc.)" ./civ
> 3. Oh dear...
>
> 	The fix: rewrite the agents code so that it doesn't render 
> capabilities completely useless.
I don't understand why this makes it impossible for a current-cvs client 
to connect to a Jan 20th-server, but possible to connect to a 1.12.0 server.
jason